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{{short description|American writer}}
{{Infobox writer 
| name = Ashley C. Ford
| image = Ashley C. Ford.png
| caption = Ford in March 2018
| birth_name =
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| birth_place = [[Fort Wayne]], [[Indiana]]
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| occupation = Writer, podcaster, educator
| education =
| alma_mater = [[Ball State University]]
| nationality = American
| genre = Non-fiction
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| website = {{url|ashleycford.net}}
| notable_works = ''Somebody's Daughter''
| spouse = Kelly Stacy
}}
'''Ashley C. Ford''' is an American writer, [[podcaster]] and educator who discusses topics including [[Race and society|race]], [[sexuality]], and [[body image]]. She is the author of the [[The New York Times Best Seller list|''New York Times'' best-selling]] memoir, ''Somebody's Daughter''. She has been the host of five [[podcast]]s and has written or guest-edited for publications including ''[[The Guardian]]'', ''[[Elle (magazine)|Elle]]'', ''[[BuzzFeed]]'', and ''[[New York (magazine)|New York]]''. In 2017, ''[[Forbes]]'' named her one of their "[[Forbes 30 Under 30|30 Under 30]] in Media".

== Early life and education ==
Ford is a native of [[Fort Wayne]], [[Indiana]], where she was raised by her mother and grandmother.<ref name="indystar">{{Cite web |url=https://www.indystar.com/story/entertainment/bailey/2015/05/24/writerlit-lover-ashley-fords-shares-journey-memoir/27834797/ |title=Writer/lit lover Ashley Ford shares journey to memoir |last=Bailey |first=Leslie |date=2015-05-24 |website=Indianapolis Star |language=en |access-date=2018-08-24}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/notes/2019/04/our-towns-introduction/587653/ |title=Our Towns: On the Road, in the Air |last=Fallows |first=James |work=[[The Atlantic]] |date=2019-04-25 |access-date=2019-04-28}}</ref> Ford graduated in 2011<ref name="indystar"/> with a degree in English from [[Ball State University]] in [[Muncie, Indiana]].

== Career ==

=== Writing ===
Ford has written for publications including ''[[The Guardian]]'', ''[[Elle (magazine)|Elle]]'', ''[[BuzzFeed]]'', and ''[[Slate (magazine)|Slate]]''<ref name="bio">{{Cite web|title=Bio|url=http://www.ashleycford.net/bio/|access-date=2018-08-24|website=Ashley C. Ford|language=en-US}}</ref> as well as lifestyle blog ''[[A Cup of Jo]]''.<ref name="bio" /> In 2017, she was the senior features writer at ''[[Refinery29]]'', and that year, she was named as one of ''[[Forbes]]''{{'s}} "30 Under 30 in Media".<ref>{{cite web|date=2017-09-19|title='Dear Sugars': How to Talk about Our Partners' Bodies|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/19/podcasts/dear-sugars-how-to-talk-about-our-partners-bodies.html|access-date=2019-04-28|website=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref><ref name="forbes">{{Cite web|title=Ashley Ford, 29|url=https://www.forbes.com/pictures/fjji45khll/ashley-ford-29/#5c04103f93b8|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170911055959/https://www.forbes.com/pictures/fjji45khll/ashley-ford-29/#5c04103f93b8|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 11, 2017|access-date=2018-08-24|website=Forbes}}</ref>

Much of her writing covers personal topics, including her life as a [[African Americans|Black]], queer writer; her history as a survivor of [[sexual assault]]; and her experiences with a family member in [[prison]] for most of her childhood.<ref name="guardian">{{Cite web|last=Galo|first=Sarah|date=2014-11-17|title=Ashley Ford: 'I write for the girl I was'|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/nov/17/ashley-ford-i-write-for-the-girl-i-was|access-date=2018-08-24|website=[[The Guardian]]|language=en}}</ref><ref name="fusion">{{Cite web|title=Writer Ashley Ford Speaks on Why She Identifies As Queer Even if She Has a Long-term Boyfriend|url=https://fusion.tv/video/107030/writer-ashley-ford-speaks-on-why-she-identifies-as-queer-even-if-she-has-a-long-term-boyfriend/|access-date=2018-08-24|website=Fusion|language=en-US|archive-date=2018-08-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180824071817/https://fusion.tv/video/107030/writer-ashley-ford-speaks-on-why-she-identifies-as-queer-even-if-she-has-a-long-term-boyfriend/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="pbsnewshour">{{cite web|title=Ashley Ford, Professional Writer - Brief but Spectacular|url=https://www.pbs.org/newshour/brief/288979/ashley-ford|access-date=2019-04-28|website=[[PBS Newshour]]|date=3 January 2019 }}</ref> Ford's essay "My Father Spent 30 Years in Prison. Now He's Out." was named on [[Longreads]]' Best of 2017 list.<ref name="longreads">{{Cite web|date=2017-12-21|title=Longreads Best of 2017: Essays|url=https://longreads.com/2017/12/21/longreads-best-of-2017-essays/|access-date=2018-08-24|website=Longreads|language=en-US}}</ref> She considers the writer [[Roxane Gay]] a mentor.<ref>{{cite news|last=Brown|first=Elisha|date=2017-09-15|title=Roxane Gay and Ashley C. Ford on Mentorship and Coping with Critics|work=[[The Atlantic]]|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/09/roxane-gay-ashley-c-ford-mentorship/539904/|access-date=2019-04-28}}</ref>

She was announced as a [[Time 100|''Time''100 Talks]] correspondent in August 2020.<ref>{{cite magazine|date=4 August 2020|title=Ashley C. Ford Joins Time as Time100 Talks Correspondent|magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |url=https://time.com/5875545/ashley-c-ford-time100-talks-correspondent/|accessdate=18 October 2020}}</ref>

==== ''Somebody's Daughter'' ====
[[File:Ashley C. Ford with John Green.png|thumb|Ford with fellow author [[John Green]] in a [[Vlogbrothers]] video in June 2021]]
Her debut book ''Somebody's Daughter'' was released on June 1, 2021, as "An Oprah Book" through [[Oprah Winfrey]]'s publishing imprint at [[Flatiron Books]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Somebody's Daughter {{!}} Ashley C. Ford {{!}} Macmillan|url=https://us.macmillan.com/somebodysdaughter/ashleycford/9781250305978|access-date=2020-11-02|website=US Macmillan|language=en-US}}</ref> The book is a [[memoir]], focusing on her difficult upbringing and her often fraught relationships with her parents, in particular her mother.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Davis|first=Bridgett M.|date=2021-05-30|title=Ashley C. Ford's Memoir Recalls Life With a Single Mom and a Jailed Dad|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/30/books/review/ashley-c-ford-somebodys-daughter.html|access-date=2021-08-26|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> Throughout her childhood, her father was incarcerated and the book explores the ways the formative conditions that created for her and her mother have "shaped her understanding of childhood, authority, forgiveness and freedom."<ref>{{Cite web|title=To Love And Not Forgive : Code Switch|url=https://www.npr.org/2021/07/26/1020711720/ashley-ford-somebodys-daughter-interview|access-date=2021-08-26|website=NPR.org|language=en}}</ref>

=== Podcasting ===
Ford is the host of [[Brooklyn]]-based television program and podcast ''112BK'',<ref name="timeout">{{Cite web|last=Anthony|first=Jillian|date=2017-12-19|title=Ashley C. Ford on writing with joy, turning thirty and finding her voice|url=https://www.timeout.com/newyork/things-to-do/ashley-c-ford-on-writing-with-joy-turning-thirty-and-finding-her-voice|access-date=2018-08-24|website=[[Time Out New York]]}}</ref> has hosted the ''[[BuzzFeed News]]'' podcast ''Profile'',<ref name="pbsnewshour" /> and was previously the host of the first season of [[Audible.com]]'s interview series ''Authorized''.

Ford is the host of the short fiction podcast, ''The Chronicles of Now'',<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Chronicles of Now on Apple Podcasts|url=https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-chronicles-of-now/id1514848058|access-date=2020-11-02|website=Apple Podcasts|date=2 September 2020 |language=en-us}}</ref> co-hosts the [[HBO]] companion podcast ''Lovecraft Country Radio'',<ref>{{Cite web|title=Lovecraft Country - Lovecraft Country Radio (The Official Podcast)|url=https://www.hbo.com/lovecraft-country/podcast|access-date=2020-11-02|website=HBO|language=en}}</ref> and is the former host of [[Mastercard]]'s ''Fortune Favors the Bold''.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Fortune Favors the Bold|url=https://gimletmedia.com/shows/fortune-favors-the-bold|access-date=2020-11-02|website=Gimlet|language=en}}</ref>

=== Acting ===
In 2018, Ford played the narrator in a stage production of ''[[The Nightmare Before Christmas]]'' at the New York cabaret [[Feinstein's/54 Below]].<ref>{{cite web|date=2018-09-10|title=Heath Saunders, Natalie Walker, and Ashley C. Ford To Lead ''The Nightmare Before Christmas'' at Feinstein's/54 Below|url=https://www.broadwayworld.com/cabaret/article/Heath-Saunders-Natalie-Walker-and-Ashley-C-Ford-To-Lead-THE-NIGHTMARE-BEFORE-CHRISTMAS-at-Feinsteins54-Below-20180910|website=BroadwayWorld|accessdate=2019-04-28}}</ref>

== Activism ==
Ford has used [[social media]] to drive fundraising campaigns for charitable causes, being credited for helping to raise $450,000 for the [[Ferguson Municipal Public Library]] in [[Ferguson, Missouri]], in 2014 and over $100,000 to pay off school lunch debts in 2017.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/donors-unite-nationwide-to-pay-off-kids-school-lunch-debt/|title=Donors unite nationwide to pay off kids' school lunch debt|date=2017-01-31|work=[[CBS News]]|access-date=2019-04-28}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.cnbc.com/2017/02/02/tweet-raised-thousands-to-pay-off-student-school-lunch-debts.html|title=This writer's tweet raised over $100,000 to wipe out students' school lunch debts|last=Hess|first=Abigail|date=2017-02-02|work=[[CNBC]]|access-date=2019-04-28}}</ref>

== Personal life ==
Ford is married to the writer Kelly Stacy. They have a [[chocolate Labrador]] named Astro Renegade Ford-Stacy.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Writer Ashley C. Ford's Home is Full of Hulk Paraphernalia, Black Girl Magic, and 'Cute' Piles|url=https://www.apartmenttherapy.com/ashley-c-ford-brooklyn-apartment-tour-photos-36609740|access-date=2020-11-02|website=Apartment Therapy|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Hello Sunshine|url=https://hello-sunshine.com/|access-date=2020-11-02|website=Hello Sunshine|language=en}}</ref> Ford identifies as [[queer]]<ref name="fusion" /><ref>{{Cite web|date=2015-03-14|title=I'm queer no matter who I'm with. I won't define myself differently for your comfort {{!}} Ashley C Ford|url=http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/mar/14/queer-dating-spectrum-other-people-comfort|access-date=2020-11-02|website=the Guardian|language=en}}</ref> and credits her time at Ball State as one of the places she was able to explore her [[sexuality]].<ref name="BSU">{{Cite web|last=Hampshire|first=Kathryn|date=2014-11-19|title=Ball State alumna works as staff writer at BuzzFeed|url=http://www.ballstatedaily.com/article/2014/11/ashley-c-ford|access-date=2018-08-24|website=Ball State Daily}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==

* {{Official website}}

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